Woman Protesting Animal Cruelty at Rodeo Is Roped & Dragged Like an Animal (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, September 24, 2010, 5:16 AM
Yee-Hah!
A 17 year-old young woman protesting animal cruelty at a rodeo in Chile knows first hand what it feels like. She was roped and dragged for her stunt.
Via Boing Boing and Free Republic:
A 17-year-old woman is lassoed and dragged by a horseman after she and other animal rights activists entered a corral to protest against the rodeo.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 91 Comments
antilbr commented:
They can do this but our border police cant?
aro5o75 commented:
LOL.
She was merely restrained for her own safety.
Militant Conservative commented:
Next trick, branding….what? They already do? Wllingly? They even pay for it? Geez, sick people.
I just eat the the animals. Doofus weenies.
BackwardsBoy commented:
Sheesh, if these people don’t like rodeos, then they don’t have to attend. But their disruption of the event should’ve resulted in their arrest, at a minimum. Disorderly conduct is our version of it, as I’m sure that Chileans have theirs. The protestors have no right to interfere.
The gauchos showed a great deal more restraint than I would have shown the protestors…
Sasja commented:
Disgusting. So they entered the corral. Big deal. They could have been removed and just tied up until the event was over.
Horse Sense commented:
Absolutely lassoed for her own safety. Screaming and running like that around horses (particularly around and behind them as the protestors were doing) is rather unwise.
We raise quarterhorses in Iowa and the only cruelty going on there was that of the protestors, by putting themselves at risk. The cross-tie lassoing done kept the protestor at distance to the horses — a very wise and thoughtful move (rather than a single lassoing which would draw the individual in).
StandUp4Chuck commented:
Awesome! Wish that would happen here with the unwashed hippy PETA freeks.
Mark1957 commented:
It is a good thing that she wasn’t protesting a BBQ.
CT commented:
Not good on anyone’s part.
Dennis commented:
Good job, Vaqueros! I wish we could do that here. The punks deserved it. They should have been horse-whipped, as well.
daryl commented:
She’s lucky she wasn’t strapped to the back of a bronc or bucking bull and turned into part of the show.
Why not protest a spectacle where the animal is really mistreated.. like a dog or rooster fight, or that old standard Spaniard entertainment…… le bool fight.
Erik commented:
They could have been removed and just tied up until the event was over.
Well, she was removed, and she was tied up. What’s the problem?
The alternative to lassoing them would have been that they jumped off their horses and tried to fight them with loose horses in the vicinity. This was definitely the safest way to do it. Though had it been me, I would have jumped off the horse and tied her hands and legs together and asked the judges for a time.
They want cows to be treated like humans, and that’s what happens. Mission accomplished.
People like that discust me. They feel they know better, so they take it upon themselfes to enforce their will on others by destroying their activities. These are not peaceful protesters, these are the kind of people that will come back one night and burn the place down “to save the animals”.
This stunt could have caused serious injury on several people, and I can guarantee not one of the “protesters” would have admitted any guilt, they are always blameless when people get hurt during their stunts.
ProLifer commented:
Excellent!
Oldpuppymax commented:
GOOD for the cowboys. Seems South America does a MUCH better job of handling its whack-job citizens than does the US.
befuddled commented:
lawls. the cowboy was just helping her into the kitchen so she can make him a sandwich.
Aaron commented:
Seriously Jim Hoft?! Even though some animal cruelty protesters can be annoying and do very stupid things, there is no excuse for assault as retribution. It is an illegal act, of which many at this blog are cheering on. Remove her from the event? Yes, but do it humanely. We live in very strange times.
Joanne commented:
Pretty extreme, but I bet animal right’s activists won’t be entering the corral at a rodeo again.
whraglyn commented:
Yet another brutally imperial chauvinist patriarch here to cheer on those vacqueros!
If only PETApetters here in the USA were subject to such action!
BTW, everything said by HorseSense, #6, and by Erik, #12, is correct: had there been no action any one of the horses could have at any moment been spooked enough by the chaos to kick a stranger running behind them across that arena.
The vacqueros used precisely the minimal force necessary to accomplish the mission of restraint.
All you, (#5, #9, #16), who are crying that the girls could have been restrained without violence are living with your heads in the clouds, or stuck up somewhere else:
ANY form of restraint, tying, or removal IS an assault JUST as unlawful as lassoing her.
Force, (such as unlawful actions of trespass), must be met with force.
Get it?
If not, go register at Kos or Huffington and do your PETApetting there, rather than trying to drag this site leftward.
Aaron commented:
#19: Are you mad?! In all my life, I’ve NEVER been accused of being an advocate for any liberal idea or agenda. You’re definitely the first to refer me to websites such as Kos and Huffington and to join them. I’m a proud conservative. The law is the only thing that matters. When John Adams witnessed the tarring and feathering of British tax collectors, he vociferously protested it as an illegal act. If you were present during that, would you accuse him of being some feminized shill for the British?
As I stated before, the animal rights activist was being a dunderhead for storming a field, which put people in harms way, but dragging her out with rope goes too far. I can’t say that I could have handled it better, but it could have been. This video does not warrant cheerleading because of a big mishap.
Andreas K. commented:
Well, consider how horses and bulls are made to jump…
It’s not the weight of the rider or saddle that does it.
The thing with catching the cows isn’t really an issue. Nothing happens there. But the bucking horses and bulls, that’s not really necessary, is it?
Though, where are those “animal rights” activists when it comes to the bullfight in Spain? The hunt for songbirds in Italy? Or the little fact that the EU financially supports so called animal factories and the transport of life animals across Europe? And I doubt that the US is perfect in that area either.
Ah, they’re too busy pointing fingers at Chile, too busy pointing fingers at Japan. I get it. Point fingers at others. I get it. The usual.
whraglyn
September 24th, 2010 | 10:17 am | #19
Blablablablabla yaddayaddayadda.
Sorry, I can’t think of any proper reply to this guy’s dribble, so I had to go down to his level.
Rose commented:
HAH! She was not hurt.
Country kids rope eachother though not usually off horse-back, and they do drag eachother around a bit, or trip eachother by roping their feet, etc.
All they do is toughen up a little bit.
Better than a nation full of kids who don’t know how to lose a baseball game, play dodge ball, or play on playground equipment, because it is all “so traumatic and dangerous”!
SO LOL!
Iconoclast commented:
Stupid is as stupid does . . . . These simplistic idealists had no freaking clue about what they were doing beyond “making a statement.” As so many others noted, that “statement” might well have been serious injury or worse.
I have to say I’d love to see this technique applied to the Westboro “baptist church” creeps, with the Patriot Guard providing the “horse power.” Code Pink is another group who’d look REAL good polishing asphalt.